And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to address the ...
Whitman identifies two criteria for social progress: “a large variety of character and full ... a famous poem, and I think it sounds like Patti Smith: “People got the power.” Walt would ...
According to a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports, non-expert readers of poetry cannot distinguish poetry written by AI ...
One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los ...
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Americans Fell in Love With Science When the Breathtaking Leonid Meteor Shower Lit Up the Skies Across the NationIn 1833, hundreds of thousands of shooting stars inspired songs, prophecies and a crowdsourced research paper on the origins ...
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Bob Dylan, folk-rock’s finest songwriter, now seems to exist beyond musicThe longstanding gripe about Dylan’s tendency to deconstruct and rework his music until it’s virtually unrecognisable live is ...
Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...
From James Joyce to Albert Camus, Marilyn Monroe's extensive personal library contained over 400 books from all genres and eras.
Americans’ choices in Tuesday’s presidential race will continue the dramatic transformation of two major parties that, like ...
He was fascinated by the Civil War and poetry and magic, and if he fled the trailer during ... And so not for the first time I reach for Walt Whitman’s famous lines: “Do I contradict myself? Very well ...
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